On October 29 in Moscow, within the framework of the third Russia-Africa summit, the head of the Russian Federation, Anna Popova, held a session on "Russia and Africa. sovereignty in the fight against epidemics". The ministers of health of Burundi, the Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Zanzibar (Tanzania), heads of leading scientific institutions of Guinea and Uganda, as well as research organizations of Rospotrabandezur participated in the discussion. At the opening of the event, Anna Popova emphasized that every year epidemic emergencies arise in the world related to a number of contemporary diseases. "Russia today is moving forward with great confidence and is a leader in organizing epidemiological surveillance. We have a great science, an academic school, an epidemiological school, a hygienic school - all this together gives us an excellent basis on which we develop, produce and apply our new approaches. Our mobile laboratories that we have created, which today operate in many countries around the world and are already operating in 11 countries in Africa, demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach," noted the head of Rospotrabendzor. Russia supports the African biosecurity strategy for the years 2026-2030 and is ready to help the continent's countries strengthen national systems and scientific potential to deal independently with biological threats. More than 2,000 African experts have been trained in biosafety, epidemiology and infection diagnosis. Joint Centers for the Study of Infectious Diseases have been established in Guinea, Burundi and the Republic of Congo. They make it possible to identify pathogens of more than 40 infections and test over 40 thousand samples every year. In the Republic of Burundi, Rospotrabendzor has already carried out more than 24 thousand studies, donated a mobile laboratory, provided assistance in the fight against smallpox and in the investigation of an outbreak of infection of unknown origin.

On October 29 in Moscow, within the framework of the third Russia-Africa summit, the head of the Russian Federation, Anna Popova, held a session on "Russia and Africa. sovereignty in the fight against epidemics". The ministers of health of Burundi, the Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Zanzibar (Tanzania), heads of leading scientific institutions of Guinea and Uganda, as well as research organizations of Rospotrabandezur participated in the discussion. At the opening of the event, Anna Popova emphasized that every year epidemic emergencies arise in the world related to a number of contemporary diseases. "Russia today is moving forward with great confidence and is a leader in organizing epidemiological surveillance. We have a great science, an academic school, an epidemiological school, a hygienic school - all this together gives us an excellent basis on which we develop, produce and apply our new approaches. Our mobile laboratories that we have created, which today operate in many countries around the world and are already operating in 11 countries in Africa, demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach," noted the head of Rospotrabendzor. Russia supports the African biosecurity strategy for the years 2026-2030 and is ready to help the continent's countries strengthen national systems and scientific potential to deal independently with biological threats. More than 2,000 African experts have been trained in biosafety, epidemiology and infection diagnosis. Joint Centers for the Study of Infectious Diseases have been established in Guinea, Burundi and the Republic of Congo. They make it possible to identify pathogens of more than 40 infections and test over 40 thousand samples every year. In the Republic of Burundi, Rospotrabendzor has already carried out more than 24 thousand studies, donated a mobile laboratory, provided assistance in the fight against smallpox and in the investigation of an outbreak of infection of unknown origin.